MEKONG GANGA COOPERATION (MGC)

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✅Membership: The MGC, is a sub-regional cooperation organisation comprising India and five ASEAN countries, namely, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam.

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L- Lao PDR

I- India 

M- Myanmar

Ca- Cambodia

T- Thailand 

V- Vietnam 

✅History: MGC was launched in 2000 at Laos capital Vientiane.

✅Name: MGC takes its name from the Ganga and the Mekong, the two civilisational rivers in Southeast Asia.

✅Mandate: The MGC aims at facilitating closer contacts among the people inhabiting these two major river basins and enhancing cooperation in tourism, culture, education, transport and communications.